Lauren B Wagner
Biographic Data
| ID | 148447 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lauren B Wagner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lauren B |
| FAMILY NAME | Wagner |
| SIGNATURE | WAGNER L B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Maastricht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4778-7408 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 99 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Talking about analysing our research material: Let's dig into data
Between the collection of empirical material and the production of final project outputs lies a mysterious and murky process of ‘getting to know’ the piles of research material. This introduction to the Special Section, ‘Digging into data: Learning together from analysis experiences’, reflects on how human geographers talk about this process of qualitative empirical analysis. It argues for the possibilities of collective learning that might arise…
Housing in progress: Caring for and living in unfinished remittance houses
Empty, unfinished, or ‘ghost’ houses are common sights around the world, where aspirational investment in housing outpaces the potential to physically occupy it. While these structures may be only partially completed, this does not mean they are unoccupied. In fact, their state of incompleteness can prompt owners to find an occupant, in order to prevent incursion, protect the existing investment in construction, and enable incremental progress to…
Resilience is not enough for Black women in STEM: Counterstories of two young Black women becoming a STEM person
Both K‐12 schools and STEM disciplines are embedded in White supremacy and exclusion, making it that much harder for Black women to maintain an interest and sense of belonging in STEM. Through a Critical Race Feminism methodology, we tell the counterstories of our two co‐authors, two Black women, over the course of their lives. Through these counterstories (stories that run counter to normative stories of STEM as male and White), Kelli and Samant…
Diasporic Mobilities on Vacation: Tourism of European-Moroccans at Home
Diasporic Mobilities on Vacation is a nuanced exploration of the embodied and affective practices of Moroccans from Europe visiting Morocco for summer vacation. Rather than characterizing them as uncomfortably split between homelands, this book focuses on how their touristic leisure practices create their own space of diasporic belonging. An expert on Moroccan diaspora communities and mobile lifestyles, the book draws on multi-sited and mobile et…
‘Smelling’ diasporic: Bargaining interactions and the problem of politeness
While post-migrant generation Moroccans from Europe often are able to converse competently enough in Moroccan languages to bargain in shops during visits to Morocco, many report that they are not given the ‘local’, ‘right’ prices because they are ‘smelled’ as outsiders. During fieldwork following these diasporic visitors in Morocco, several participants strategically shopped for goods with a ‘local’ friend or family member who might negotiate on …
Spoken word ≠ interviews: Listening to negotiations in a Moroccan market
Analysing the spoken word, in some traditions, means analysing how social life is created, ordered and transformed through interaction, rather than how it is reported about in interviews. This paper examines an excerpt recorded in that spirit—towards understanding how participants continuously and demonstrably categorise each other in face‐to‐face conversation. Within the larger project, this excerpt was unique and memorable, but did not seem to …
Visiting 'home: Considering diasporic practices through assemblage dynamics
Visiting 'home' as a migrant may not always be about going home. Exploring a case where visiting is motivated by tourism as much as - or more than - migration, I argue for using assemblage as a set of ontological premises enables alternative appreciations of how practices of 'visiting home' evolve. Starting from a primacy of relationality and of malleable materialities, this perspective does not rely on migration-defined polarities to frame the s…
Giving back' through mobility trajectories: Motivations for engaging in development encounters in Ghana among transnational youth
Literature on diaspora engagement in development activities has centred on the contributions of migrating adults to the 'homeland', which range from private transfers to single households, to community development projects. While such studies often focus on the impact of such activities on the country of origin, relatively few have focused on what transpires during development encounters and how this affects migrants', and especially young people…
Why Are You Not Crying?’: Understanding Young People’s Transnational Engagements through Funeral Visits to Ghana
This article analyses the ways in which young people with a migration background develop their own transnational engagement with their or their parents’ country of origin. Drawing on 17-months of multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork in the Netherlands and Ghana, we add to the emerging literature on ‘return’ mobilities by analysing young people of Ghanaian background, irrespective of whether they or their parents migrated, and by looking at an under…
Experiments in becoming: Corporeality, Attunement and Doing Research
Human geography has become deeply interested in a range of research methods that focus on researchers' corporeal engagement with their research sites. This interest has opened up an exciting set of research horizons, energising the discipline in a whole range of ways. Welcoming this engagement, this paper presents a series of meditations on the process of using the researcher's corporeal learning as a research tool. Exploring two research project…
Expanding transnational care networks: Comparing Caring for Families With Caring for Homes
Although many factors may motivate a migrant to own a house in their country of origin, significant practical labour is needed to maintain it, as both a material structure intended for shelter and as a symbolic object reflecting attachment to a place of origin. Most research in this area focuses on the significance accorded to transnational houses by their owners and families connoted by the 'myth of return', but little attention has been given t…
Choosing Teams: Imagining Futures of Diaspora through the 2018 World Cup
The future of diaspora goes together with the future of diversity, and the different ways in which states and nations can reconfigure how their mobile, multifaceted members are accepted as belonging. The 2018 FIFA World Cup, like many international sporting events, crystallised some of debates about citizenship and belonging as applied to specific players and, notably for this event, to the ‘foreign-born’ men playing for the Moroccan team. Though…
Contingently elite: Affective practices of diasporic urban nightlife consumption
For diasporic communities fostered through international labor migration, visiting an ancestral homeland can be a transformative encounter. Crossing into “the homeland”, descendants of migrants can reorient from a relatively underprivileged and socioeconomically immobilized minority, into a geopolitically mobile economic elite. For Moroccans from Europe, this transformation recurs every summer, as millions of diasporic visitors – including severa…
Flirting diasporically: Visits 'Home' Facilitating Diasporic Encounters and Complex Communities
While generations of Moroccan-origin Europeans have been a focus of policymakers seeking to 'integrate' them in their countries of dwelling, less attention has been paid to how visiting 'home' in Morocco - a perpetuating practice among Moroccan families living in Europe - contributes to their life course trajectories. The summertime influx of Moroccan-origin families from across the globe creates the possibility to encounter a superdiverse commun…
Mattering Moralities: Learning Corporeal Modesty through Muslim Diasporic Clothing Practices
Questions of 'coveredness' in Islamic codes of dress, particularly as they apply to women, are often framed through the symbolic statements that they enable or disable, or through discourses on public versus private spaces. Rather than focus on these disciplining dimensions, this article explores observations about embodied practices for clothing oneself 'modestly', and some of the paradoxes thereof, which emerged in the context of research about…
Viscous automobilities: Diasporic Practices and Vehicular Assemblages of Visiting 'Home
This paper analyzes how leisure practices of diasporic visitors cut viscous trails of car-based consumption through Morocco. During ethnography of summer holidays with Moroccan-origin visitors from Europe, research participants were often observed consuming elite leisure spaces in ways that were predicated on both their familiarity with Morocco as a homeland and their access to a car. Microanalysis of emergent dynamics of group distinction and co…
Tourist Price’ and Diasporic Visitors: Negotiating the Value of Descent
Marketplace exchange is implicitly both economic and social. Participants in marketplace encounters assemble into multidimensional categories of familiarity and difference, both through the material culture object for sale and through the interaction between vendors and clients within their transactions. This paper brings attention to the latter through microanalysis of one example from a corpus of recorded marketplace interactions of Moroccan di…
Extra-ordinary Tangier: Domesticating Practices in a Border Zone
In this article, we take to task the representation of Tangier as an exceptional, extra-ordinary city, not bound by the usual laws of time and space—a representation conjured up by its literary expats in the early 1950s and still persistent today. We attempt to confront it with a different set of geographical imaginations of what we term, in shorthand, a domesticated more-than-ordinary city. In today’s Tangier, notions of exceptionality continue …
Shopping for Diasporic Belonging: Being ‘Local’ or Being ‘Mobile’ as a VFR Visitor in the Ancestral Homeland
Visits to friends and relatives are often part of circulatory migration mobilities between resident and ancestral homelands. These journeys are characteristic of the diasporic lives of post‐migrant generations of Moroccans from Europe, where close proximity and relatively unimpeded mobility between homelands have enabled a tradition of vacationing at ‘home’. For many such individuals, this vacation visit involves repeatedly negotiating a sense of…
Topographies of the Kasbah Route: Hardening of a heritage trail
In 1932, the Tourism Syndicate of the French Protectorate government in Morocco published a guidebook for French tourists to follow the ‘ Route des Kasbas’ through southern Morocco. The trajectory described is still in many ways reproduced by contemporary guiding materials, delineating specific routes where this ‘heritage’ might be found in Morocco and what sorts of mobilities are necessary to seek it. Using these guiding resources from ‘the fiel…
Using Silence to “Pass”: Embodiment and Interactional Categorization in a Diasporic Context
This article posits that “passing” is a manipulation of ambiguously embodied characteristics, linguistic practice, and ratification by other speakers. I explore discourses and practices of “passing” by post-migrant generation, diasporically-resident Moroccans who seek to be unmarked by migration when bargaining in Moroccan markets. Their attempts have many possibilities for failure, including any way that their diasporic provenance might be made …
Reflections on Measuring Discrimination: The Case of Outdoor Recreation
Rabat retrospective: Colonial heritage in a Moroccan urban laboratory
Louis H-G Lyautey’s legacy as colonial regent of Morocco and as an innovator in French urban planning resonates through his transformation of Rabat according to entirely new spatial logics of modernity. While his plans produced conditions for structural difficulty in indigenous housing, they also enabled the preservation of historic monuments as spaces for tourist consumption – that are now, post-Independence, considered part of Moroccan national…
Trouble at home: Diasporic second homes as leisure space across generations
Like migrants from various southern sending countries, many Moroccan post-war guest worker migrants in Belgium and the Netherlands invested part of their foreign earnings in building a house in Morocco. These houses were often earmarked for eventual retirement, but over the course of years of return visits became the familial vacation home in their place of origin. Their cyclical presence enabled ongoing communion with family in Morocco, while al…
Feeling at home in public: Diasporic Moroccan women negotiating leisure in Morocco and the Netherlands
Muslim women are often cited as subject to restriction in their mobility through public space, especially in European contexts, in comparison with non-Muslim community members. Yet any woman might face restriction in her access to leisure outside the home through geographies of risk and fear, as well as geographies of care and responsibility. In this article, we describe the ways in which Moroccan Muslim women resident in Europe negotiate access …
Feeling at home in public: Diasporic Moroccan women negotiating leisure in Morocco and the Netherlands
Muslim women are often cited as subject to restriction in their mobility through public space, especially in European contexts, in comparison with non-Muslim community members. Yet any woman might face restriction in her access to leisure outside the home through geographies of risk and fear, as well as geographies of care and responsibility. In this article, we describe the ways in which Moroccan Muslim women resident in Europe negotiate access …
Giving back' through mobility trajectories: Motivations for engaging in development encounters in Ghana among transnational youth
Literature on diaspora engagement in development activities has centred on the contributions of migrating adults to the 'homeland', which range from private transfers to single households, to community development projects. While such studies often focus on the impact of such activities on the country of origin, relatively few have focused on what transpires during development encounters and how this affects migrants', and especially young people…
Flirting diasporically: Visits 'Home' Facilitating Diasporic Encounters and Complex Communities
While generations of Moroccan-origin Europeans have been a focus of policymakers seeking to 'integrate' them in their countries of dwelling, less attention has been paid to how visiting 'home' in Morocco - a perpetuating practice among Moroccan families living in Europe - contributes to their life course trajectories. The summertime influx of Moroccan-origin families from across the globe creates the possibility to encounter a superdiverse commun…
Socioeconomic variation in recall and perceived effectiveness of campaign advertisements to promote smoking cessation
Shopping for Diasporic Belonging: Being ‘Local’ or Being ‘Mobile’ as a VFR Visitor in the Ancestral Homeland
Visits to friends and relatives are often part of circulatory migration mobilities between resident and ancestral homelands. These journeys are characteristic of the diasporic lives of post‐migrant generations of Moroccans from Europe, where close proximity and relatively unimpeded mobility between homelands have enabled a tradition of vacationing at ‘home’. For many such individuals, this vacation visit involves repeatedly negotiating a sense of…
Experiments in becoming: Corporeality, Attunement and Doing Research
Human geography has become deeply interested in a range of research methods that focus on researchers' corporeal engagement with their research sites. This interest has opened up an exciting set of research horizons, energising the discipline in a whole range of ways. Welcoming this engagement, this paper presents a series of meditations on the process of using the researcher's corporeal learning as a research tool. Exploring two research project…
Contingently elite: Affective practices of diasporic urban nightlife consumption
For diasporic communities fostered through international labor migration, visiting an ancestral homeland can be a transformative encounter. Crossing into “the homeland”, descendants of migrants can reorient from a relatively underprivileged and socioeconomically immobilized minority, into a geopolitically mobile economic elite. For Moroccans from Europe, this transformation recurs every summer, as millions of diasporic visitors – including severa…
Rabat retrospective: Colonial heritage in a Moroccan urban laboratory
Louis H-G Lyautey’s legacy as colonial regent of Morocco and as an innovator in French urban planning resonates through his transformation of Rabat according to entirely new spatial logics of modernity. While his plans produced conditions for structural difficulty in indigenous housing, they also enabled the preservation of historic monuments as spaces for tourist consumption – that are now, post-Independence, considered part of Moroccan national…
Trouble at home: Diasporic second homes as leisure space across generations
Like migrants from various southern sending countries, many Moroccan post-war guest worker migrants in Belgium and the Netherlands invested part of their foreign earnings in building a house in Morocco. These houses were often earmarked for eventual retirement, but over the course of years of return visits became the familial vacation home in their place of origin. Their cyclical presence enabled ongoing communion with family in Morocco, while al…
Diasporic visitor, diasporic tourist: Post-migrant generation Moroccans on holiday at ‘home’ in Morocco
Diasporic populations who visit the ‘homeland’ often describe a paradoxical sense of being a ‘tourist in their own home’. This article explores this dynamic through ethnographic data on post-migrant generation Moroccans from Europe who spend their summer holidays in Morocco. Although these individuals characterise their visits as ‘going home’, how they choose to spend their time on vacation indicates that the holiday is more than simply a visit t…
Expanding transnational care networks: Comparing Caring for Families With Caring for Homes
Although many factors may motivate a migrant to own a house in their country of origin, significant practical labour is needed to maintain it, as both a material structure intended for shelter and as a symbolic object reflecting attachment to a place of origin. Most research in this area focuses on the significance accorded to transnational houses by their owners and families connoted by the 'myth of return', but little attention has been given t…
Viscous automobilities: Diasporic Practices and Vehicular Assemblages of Visiting 'Home
This paper analyzes how leisure practices of diasporic visitors cut viscous trails of car-based consumption through Morocco. During ethnography of summer holidays with Moroccan-origin visitors from Europe, research participants were often observed consuming elite leisure spaces in ways that were predicated on both their familiarity with Morocco as a homeland and their access to a car. Microanalysis of emergent dynamics of group distinction and co…
Topographies of the Kasbah Route: Hardening of a heritage trail
In 1932, the Tourism Syndicate of the French Protectorate government in Morocco published a guidebook for French tourists to follow the ‘ Route des Kasbas’ through southern Morocco. The trajectory described is still in many ways reproduced by contemporary guiding materials, delineating specific routes where this ‘heritage’ might be found in Morocco and what sorts of mobilities are necessary to seek it. Using these guiding resources from ‘the fiel…
Housing in progress: Caring for and living in unfinished remittance houses
Empty, unfinished, or ‘ghost’ houses are common sights around the world, where aspirational investment in housing outpaces the potential to physically occupy it. While these structures may be only partially completed, this does not mean they are unoccupied. In fact, their state of incompleteness can prompt owners to find an occupant, in order to prevent incursion, protect the existing investment in construction, and enable incremental progress to…
Spoken word ≠ interviews: Listening to negotiations in a Moroccan market
Analysing the spoken word, in some traditions, means analysing how social life is created, ordered and transformed through interaction, rather than how it is reported about in interviews. This paper examines an excerpt recorded in that spirit—towards understanding how participants continuously and demonstrably categorise each other in face‐to‐face conversation. Within the larger project, this excerpt was unique and memorable, but did not seem to …
Visiting 'home: Considering diasporic practices through assemblage dynamics
Visiting 'home' as a migrant may not always be about going home. Exploring a case where visiting is motivated by tourism as much as - or more than - migration, I argue for using assemblage as a set of ontological premises enables alternative appreciations of how practices of 'visiting home' evolve. Starting from a primacy of relationality and of malleable materialities, this perspective does not rely on migration-defined polarities to frame the s…
Why Are You Not Crying?’: Understanding Young People’s Transnational Engagements through Funeral Visits to Ghana
This article analyses the ways in which young people with a migration background develop their own transnational engagement with their or their parents’ country of origin. Drawing on 17-months of multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork in the Netherlands and Ghana, we add to the emerging literature on ‘return’ mobilities by analysing young people of Ghanaian background, irrespective of whether they or their parents migrated, and by looking at an under…
Mattering Moralities: Learning Corporeal Modesty through Muslim Diasporic Clothing Practices
Questions of 'coveredness' in Islamic codes of dress, particularly as they apply to women, are often framed through the symbolic statements that they enable or disable, or through discourses on public versus private spaces. Rather than focus on these disciplining dimensions, this article explores observations about embodied practices for clothing oneself 'modestly', and some of the paradoxes thereof, which emerged in the context of research about…
Using Silence to “Pass”: Embodiment and Interactional Categorization in a Diasporic Context
This article posits that “passing” is a manipulation of ambiguously embodied characteristics, linguistic practice, and ratification by other speakers. I explore discourses and practices of “passing” by post-migrant generation, diasporically-resident Moroccans who seek to be unmarked by migration when bargaining in Moroccan markets. Their attempts have many possibilities for failure, including any way that their diasporic provenance might be made …
Reflections on Measuring Discrimination: The Case of Outdoor Recreation
Purism in Minor Languages, Endangered Languages, Regional Languages, Mixed Languages: Papers from the Conference on "Purism in the Age of Globalisation," Bremen, September 2001
Language Contact and Language Conflict in Arabic: Variations on Sociolinguistic Theme
Language Contact and Language Conflict in Arabic: Variations on Sociolinguistic Theme By Aleya Rouchdy. ed. London. RoutledgeCurzon. 2002
The Arabic Language and National Identity , Edited by Yasir Suleiman
Diasporic visitor, diasporic tourist: Post-migrant generation Moroccans on holiday at ‘home’ in Morocco
Diasporic populations who visit the ‘homeland’ often describe a paradoxical sense of being a ‘tourist in their own home’. This article explores this dynamic through ethnographic data on post-migrant generation Moroccans from Europe who spend their summer holidays in Morocco. Although these individuals characterise their visits as ‘going home’, how they choose to spend their time on vacation indicates that the holiday is more than simply a visit t…
Socioeconomic variation in recall and perceived effectiveness of campaign advertisements to promote smoking cessation
Chapter 4 Negotiating Marrakech: Postcolonial Travels in Morocco
Marrakech is today the most important tourist destination in Morocco. Marrakech, however, is not only a key reference point for mass international tourism, but also the preferred choice for those hunting for an “authentic” experience in this North African country. The “Red City” is indeed often presented in literature and advertising alike as a place out of modern time where the real “soul” of Morocco can be found and unveiled (Minca, 2006). This…
Trouble at home: Diasporic second homes as leisure space across generations
Like migrants from various southern sending countries, many Moroccan post-war guest worker migrants in Belgium and the Netherlands invested part of their foreign earnings in building a house in Morocco. These houses were often earmarked for eventual retirement, but over the course of years of return visits became the familial vacation home in their place of origin. Their cyclical presence enabled ongoing communion with family in Morocco, while al…
Feeling at home in public: Diasporic Moroccan women negotiating leisure in Morocco and the Netherlands
Muslim women are often cited as subject to restriction in their mobility through public space, especially in European contexts, in comparison with non-Muslim community members. Yet any woman might face restriction in her access to leisure outside the home through geographies of risk and fear, as well as geographies of care and responsibility. In this article, we describe the ways in which Moroccan Muslim women resident in Europe negotiate access …
Rabat retrospective: Colonial heritage in a Moroccan urban laboratory
Louis H-G Lyautey’s legacy as colonial regent of Morocco and as an innovator in French urban planning resonates through his transformation of Rabat according to entirely new spatial logics of modernity. While his plans produced conditions for structural difficulty in indigenous housing, they also enabled the preservation of historic monuments as spaces for tourist consumption – that are now, post-Independence, considered part of Moroccan national…
Tourist Price’ and Diasporic Visitors: Negotiating the Value of Descent
Marketplace exchange is implicitly both economic and social. Participants in marketplace encounters assemble into multidimensional categories of familiarity and difference, both through the material culture object for sale and through the interaction between vendors and clients within their transactions. This paper brings attention to the latter through microanalysis of one example from a corpus of recorded marketplace interactions of Moroccan di…
Extra-ordinary Tangier: Domesticating Practices in a Border Zone
In this article, we take to task the representation of Tangier as an exceptional, extra-ordinary city, not bound by the usual laws of time and space—a representation conjured up by its literary expats in the early 1950s and still persistent today. We attempt to confront it with a different set of geographical imaginations of what we term, in shorthand, a domesticated more-than-ordinary city. In today’s Tangier, notions of exceptionality continue …
Shopping for Diasporic Belonging: Being ‘Local’ or Being ‘Mobile’ as a VFR Visitor in the Ancestral Homeland
Visits to friends and relatives are often part of circulatory migration mobilities between resident and ancestral homelands. These journeys are characteristic of the diasporic lives of post‐migrant generations of Moroccans from Europe, where close proximity and relatively unimpeded mobility between homelands have enabled a tradition of vacationing at ‘home’. For many such individuals, this vacation visit involves repeatedly negotiating a sense of…
Topographies of the Kasbah Route: Hardening of a heritage trail
In 1932, the Tourism Syndicate of the French Protectorate government in Morocco published a guidebook for French tourists to follow the ‘ Route des Kasbas’ through southern Morocco. The trajectory described is still in many ways reproduced by contemporary guiding materials, delineating specific routes where this ‘heritage’ might be found in Morocco and what sorts of mobilities are necessary to seek it. Using these guiding resources from ‘the fiel…
Using Silence to “Pass”: Embodiment and Interactional Categorization in a Diasporic Context
This article posits that “passing” is a manipulation of ambiguously embodied characteristics, linguistic practice, and ratification by other speakers. I explore discourses and practices of “passing” by post-migrant generation, diasporically-resident Moroccans who seek to be unmarked by migration when bargaining in Moroccan markets. Their attempts have many possibilities for failure, including any way that their diasporic provenance might be made …
Reflections on Measuring Discrimination: The Case of Outdoor Recreation
Mattering Moralities: Learning Corporeal Modesty through Muslim Diasporic Clothing Practices
Questions of 'coveredness' in Islamic codes of dress, particularly as they apply to women, are often framed through the symbolic statements that they enable or disable, or through discourses on public versus private spaces. Rather than focus on these disciplining dimensions, this article explores observations about embodied practices for clothing oneself 'modestly', and some of the paradoxes thereof, which emerged in the context of research about…
Viscous automobilities: Diasporic Practices and Vehicular Assemblages of Visiting 'Home
This paper analyzes how leisure practices of diasporic visitors cut viscous trails of car-based consumption through Morocco. During ethnography of summer holidays with Moroccan-origin visitors from Europe, research participants were often observed consuming elite leisure spaces in ways that were predicated on both their familiarity with Morocco as a homeland and their access to a car. Microanalysis of emergent dynamics of group distinction and co…
Flirting diasporically: Visits 'Home' Facilitating Diasporic Encounters and Complex Communities
While generations of Moroccan-origin Europeans have been a focus of policymakers seeking to 'integrate' them in their countries of dwelling, less attention has been paid to how visiting 'home' in Morocco - a perpetuating practice among Moroccan families living in Europe - contributes to their life course trajectories. The summertime influx of Moroccan-origin families from across the globe creates the possibility to encounter a superdiverse commun…
Choosing Teams: Imagining Futures of Diaspora through the 2018 World Cup
The future of diaspora goes together with the future of diversity, and the different ways in which states and nations can reconfigure how their mobile, multifaceted members are accepted as belonging. The 2018 FIFA World Cup, like many international sporting events, crystallised some of debates about citizenship and belonging as applied to specific players and, notably for this event, to the ‘foreign-born’ men playing for the Moroccan team. Though…
Contingently elite: Affective practices of diasporic urban nightlife consumption
For diasporic communities fostered through international labor migration, visiting an ancestral homeland can be a transformative encounter. Crossing into “the homeland”, descendants of migrants can reorient from a relatively underprivileged and socioeconomically immobilized minority, into a geopolitically mobile economic elite. For Moroccans from Europe, this transformation recurs every summer, as millions of diasporic visitors – including severa…
Expanding transnational care networks: Comparing Caring for Families With Caring for Homes
Although many factors may motivate a migrant to own a house in their country of origin, significant practical labour is needed to maintain it, as both a material structure intended for shelter and as a symbolic object reflecting attachment to a place of origin. Most research in this area focuses on the significance accorded to transnational houses by their owners and families connoted by the 'myth of return', but little attention has been given t…
Why Are You Not Crying?’: Understanding Young People’s Transnational Engagements through Funeral Visits to Ghana
This article analyses the ways in which young people with a migration background develop their own transnational engagement with their or their parents’ country of origin. Drawing on 17-months of multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork in the Netherlands and Ghana, we add to the emerging literature on ‘return’ mobilities by analysing young people of Ghanaian background, irrespective of whether they or their parents migrated, and by looking at an under…
Experiments in becoming: Corporeality, Attunement and Doing Research
Human geography has become deeply interested in a range of research methods that focus on researchers' corporeal engagement with their research sites. This interest has opened up an exciting set of research horizons, energising the discipline in a whole range of ways. Welcoming this engagement, this paper presents a series of meditations on the process of using the researcher's corporeal learning as a research tool. Exploring two research project…
Giving back' through mobility trajectories: Motivations for engaging in development encounters in Ghana among transnational youth
Literature on diaspora engagement in development activities has centred on the contributions of migrating adults to the 'homeland', which range from private transfers to single households, to community development projects. While such studies often focus on the impact of such activities on the country of origin, relatively few have focused on what transpires during development encounters and how this affects migrants', and especially young people…
Diasporic Mobilities on Vacation: Tourism of European-Moroccans at Home
Diasporic Mobilities on Vacation is a nuanced exploration of the embodied and affective practices of Moroccans from Europe visiting Morocco for summer vacation. Rather than characterizing them as uncomfortably split between homelands, this book focuses on how their touristic leisure practices create their own space of diasporic belonging. An expert on Moroccan diaspora communities and mobile lifestyles, the book draws on multi-sited and mobile et…
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